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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
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adjustments in industry location patterns. The locations of production and innovation are determined based on trade barriers and … industrial share of the country where the policy is implemented. In addition, examining the welfare effects of tariffs, we find … that policy trade-offs may generate positive optimal tariff rates. …
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The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita … do not show any auto-correlation. The trade and foreign investment variables have a significant impact on the growth rate … of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …
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and government consumption, trade openness, population growth and government debt) in Greece, where imbalances persist … and government consumption and trade openness affect positively growth. On the other hand, there is a negative long …
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This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries … that liberalization has very heterogeneous effects on poor households, depending, inter alia, on what trade policies are … suggested several ways in which intrasectoral wage inequality is increased by trade, but this research generally does not …
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from 1990 to 2014. Empirical results were insignificant to explain the long-run relationship between South Africa’s trade …, direct foreign investment and growth with the BRIC countries. The short-run trade effect was little to instil any significant … effect on South Africa’s growth. BRICS trade does not Granger Cause growth in South Africa. Trade and investment policy …
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This article shows how institutional quality can affect the relationship between trade and growth. Our model looks at … tariffs reduce economic growth and the government faces a tradeoff: It can either (i) raise tariffs, collect greater rents …, and increase stability; or (ii) it can reduce tariffs and increase long-run growth and instability. When the quality of a …
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This paper provides new evidence of the effects of road construction on both domestic and international trade flows in … those supported by multilateral development banks. We find that road construction helped to reduce trade costs significantly … internal trade costs decreases by 20%, and the ad valorem rate of international trade costs decreases, on average, by 15 …
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and government consumption, trade openness, population growth and government debt) in Greece, where imbalances persist … and government consumption and trade openness affect positively growth. On the other hand, there is a negative long …
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